Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-06-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00391.x
The image of a point situated at the center of a circularly symmetric potential is a perfect circle. The perturbative effect of non-symmetrical potential terms is to displace and break the perfect circle. These 2 effects, displacement and breaking are directly related to the Taylor expansion of the perturbation at first order on the circle. The numerical accuracy of this perturbative approach is tested in the case of an elliptical potential with a core radius. The contour of the images and the caustics lines are well re-produced by the perturbative approach. These results suggests that the modeling of arcs, and in particular of tangential arcs may be simplified by using a general perturbative representation on the circle. An interesting feature of the perturbative approach, is that the equation of the caustic line depends only on the values on the circle of the lens displacement field along the $\theta$ direction.
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